Yes! As I had said: Our resurrection is a two stage process. There will be no resurrection of our physical bodies, unless we have received the Holy Spirit of God, the very actuator of ALL resurrections.
The power to spiritually quicken us, is found in Him, who is the resurrection.
I repeat, Jesus is the resurrection.
You can't have the end results of His act of our resurrection, until you
have part in the
origin of it, who is Jesus.
John.5[
21] For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth them;
even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Rom.8[
11] But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Yes.
SHALL quicken
your mortal bodies. If you are born again you have received the quickening but anticipate the resurrection.
Christians need to understand the difference between bodily resurrection and the quickening of the Spirit, because faulty theology completely conflates the word resurrection with the quickening of the Spirit. We should really consider these facts.
The Greek word
psychḗ is used interchangeably in the New Testament in reference
to the life, the mind and the soul, for example:-
The mind:- (examples)
Philippians 1:27
"Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit [pneûma], striving together with one mind [psychḗ] for the faith of the gospel."
Hebrews 12:3
"For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds [psychḗ]."
The life:- (example) Matthew 2:20; Matthew 6:25; Matthew 10:39
The soul:- Matthew 10:28; Isaiah 42:1 (quoted also in Matthew 12:18); 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12
Genesis 2:7 tells us that when Adam was created,
the Spirit (breath) of God breathed spiritual life into Adam, and he became a living soul.
When Adam sinned, he lost the source of (eternal) spiritual life, and ever since, whoever is born into the world, is born
without (eternal) spiritual life and must be born of the Spirit from above in order to 'see' [εἴδω eídō: behold, know, experience, understand] the Kingdom of God.
John 3:3
"Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you,
Unless a man is born [γεννάω gennáō] from above [Greek: ἄνωθεν ánōthen], he cannot see the kingdom of God."
00509 ἄνωθεν
ánōthen, an'-o-then
from 507;
from above; by analogy, from the first; by implication, anew:--from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
John 3:6-8
"That which is born [gennáō] of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born [gennáō] of the Spirit [pneûma] is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born from above [ἄνωθεν ánōthen]. The Spirit [pneûma]] breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born [γεννάω gennáō] of the Spirit."
Both Genesis 2:7 and John 3:8 (above) speak of the Spirit of God
breathing His (eternal) life into man.
These, once again, are the Greek words used in the New Testament in reference to being made alive by the Spirit ("quickened"):
zōopoiéō: Used in reference to the Spirit's quickening, making alive again, giving or imparting (eternal) life. Also used in reference to the quickening of the mortal body (see below).
syzōopoiéō: Made alive again together with Christ, quickened together with Christ.
The word zōopoiéō ("quicken")
refers to being made alive by the Spirit, and it is used in the following verses:
|| John 5:21; John 6:63; Romans 4:17; Romans 8:11; I Corinthians 15:22, 36 & 45; II Corinthians 3:6; Galatians 3:21; I Timothy 6:13; I Peter 3:18. ||
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has begotten us again [anagennáō] to a living hope (Greek: záō elpís) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." (1 Peter 1:3) *
* anagennáō ["begotten us again"] is a combination of the words gennáō (beget) and aná (again)
* Living hope (záō elpís):
The word záō means to live, and the word elpís means to anticipate, and
this is what we anticipate:
"And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:23)
The above verse speaks of our
bodily resurrection - something
we live in hope (anticipation) of; and the resurrection (Greek: anástasis/égersis),
whenever mentioned in the New Testament, always and without exception refers only to the bodily resurrection FROM the dead, not to any supposed spiritual 'resurrection' (the Greek words for resurrection implies bodily resurrection FROM the dead whenever it appears in the New Testament).
The same goes for the Greek verbs used in reference to rising again from the dead: egeírō, anístēmi.
In the New Testament, the Greek word
syzōopoiéō refers to
being made alive spiritually through being born of the Spirit ("quickened together with Christ); and
synegeírō refers to
being bodily raised up together with Christ's bodily resurrection:
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in sins has made us alive together with Christ [συζωοποιέω syzōopoiéō] (by grace you are saved), and has raised us up together [synegeírō] and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:4-6).
"But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken [zōopoiéō] your mortal bodies by His Spirit who dwells in you." (Romans 8:11).
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." (Titus 3:5).
The word
"regeneration" in the above verse is a translation of the Greek word palingenesía [StrongsGreek G03824]. It's a combination of the words
pálin (anew) and génesis (i.e generation).
Thayer's dictionary definition of palingenesía: new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration.
The word is also found in Matthew 19:28.
Being made alive by the Spirit together with Christ, i.e regenerated through spiritual birth from above
is what we already have received. The resurrection (ho anastasis) is what we anticipate: It refers only to the bodily resurrection.
See posts #1 and #2 in this thread.
1. GOD'S WORD ABOVE ALL THINGS.
OR
2. AMILLENNILIALIST FALSE THEOLOGY REGARDING
SUPPOSED SPIRITUAL "RESURRECTION" ABOVE ALL THINGS.
Make your choices, because the above two do not equate.